In order to clear up the negative number debate, I suggest the Kelvin scale; 0 is placed at absolute 0, the lowest possible temperature (theoretically, there would be no molecular movement). Coversion is easy too! To convert from celsius to Kelvin, you just need to subtract 273 degrees. To convert from Farenheit, just convert to celsius first. -40 Farenheit/Celsius ----> 233 K 32 F/0 C ----> 273 K 212 F/100 C -----> 373 K Good luck getting into the club though! Edit: I should have read the post above more thoroughly...

Ha! I've run there, seriously, but in the summer. It was like 55 degrees. Took that 500 mile Dalton Hwy to Deadhorse, and was happy for the low temps, since the skeeter swarms were on the low side. Would love to say one day that I've run the North Slope of AK in the winter---- that's on my bucket list. BTW, North Pole is a tourist trap ;-)

- Anya

mark-bixler

posted: 12/8/2010 at 10:31 AM

Does wind chill count? If so, I did 8 miles this morning with a wind chill of 7.

Listen. Yeah, it's gonna hurt some. That's the marathon business.

But here's the thing. When it starts to get intense, that's not time to panic. This is what you wanted to happen. It means that all the training, all the miles, all the wakeups, all the cold, all the wet, all the sleep-deprived days and all the shit you've done to yourself over the last 6 plus months is finally about to pay off. It means you've put yourself where you wanted to be. You've given yourself an opportunity that very few will ever have. You've given yourself a chance.

We established last year that it does not. Someone said that because it was man's interpretation of weather or something like that...in my opinion, isn't temperature itself a man-made thing? We're not born knowing how to rate temperature, we learn it.

Does wind chill count? If so, I did 8 miles this morning with a wind chill of 7.

'No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everyone on the couch'

"Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'" - Peter Maher

"Running long and hard is an ideal antidepressant, since it's hard to run and feel sorry for yourself at the same time. Also, there are those hours of clearheadedness that follow a long run." -Monte Davis

Whoa, that's an obscure one. I don't think decimeters are obscure enough to be a good fit, and besides you're mixing metric and English(?) units. Maybe furlongs or fathoms, depending on how ambitious you are.